Computer Basics: What does Open Source mean

Hello campers, I m Anthony also known as dapperAuteur on Free Code Camp and GitHub. Thank you for joining me on this short hike about Open Source code. I m going to explain open source code by comparing it to its opposite, closed source code. There are a variety of models in between the two. Open source code is published, shared, public, and supported by the community. Closed source code is not published, not shared, not public, and it is not supported by a community. What makes open source code so important to us is the fact that it is supported by the community. Anything that is created with open source code is done by those who use it. An example of open source code would be Linux software. It s opposite would be Windows or Apple s OSX operating systems. Linux was created and is av. .., FreeCodeCamp, JavaScript, PairProgramming , AngularJS, MongoDB, SQL, code, learntocode 20160327 o0Pi0966BOM